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Do you even remember what you wrote? >Also... isn't the whole opioid addiction crisis basically because people were in fact buying regulated ~heroin? Of cours
by johnnienaked 1y ago
Do you even remember what you wrote?
>Also... isn't the whole opioid addiction crisis basically because people were in fact buying regulated ~heroin?
Of course not, this is a ridiculous comment. People have been addicted to opiates for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Blaming oxycontin is passé
- kgwgk 1y agoResponding to the Opioid Crisis in North America and Beyond: Recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968/ The first wave of the opioid crisis began in the 1990s when the long-acting opioid OxyContin and other high potency opioids were employed for an extremely wide array of patients.
- johnnienaked 1y agoHow are they defining the opioid crisis?
- rkomorn 1y agoAre you taking "the whole opioid addiction crisis" literally? As if I meant that every single opioid addiction in history is because of "regulated heroin"? You think that's a reasonable read?
- johnnienaked 1y agoSo you only meant some of it then? Why did you say whole? People aren't mind readers. If you mean some, don't say whole and you'll probably avoid confusing people.
- rkomorn 1y agoBecause there is something that people these days commonly refer to as "the opioid crisis" (or epidemic) [1]. And overprescribed pain meds are seen as a large cause of it / aggravating factor. So yeah, "that whole thing". It's not an unusual expression, that I know of. 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic
- johnnienaked 1y agoIt might not be unusual, but in this context it was confusing